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Be Accurate.

The value of accuracy, in an educational
point of view, has been well illustrated by
the Bishop of Manchester, England, in
these words: "When man goes into the
world knowing when he does know thing
knowing when he does not know thing,
and knowing how knowledge is to be ac-
quired, 1 call him a perfectly educated
man." It is best to master studies thor
aughly, or one will suffer modification
from an exposure of ignorance. Superb
cial knowledge may show often to advantage,
but it is only solid learning that avails to
do the hard work of life. Lord Althorp
was one Of the most honored and loved
among the Wing leaders of the English
Parliament. He never introduced bill
into Parliament until he had thoroughly
examined its minutest provisions. On one
occasion he was looking over the accounts
of an agricultural society before signing
his name as president. He detected an
error of three pence in the balance-sheet,
and refused to sign the statement until the
error was corrected. He spent four hours
in going over the accounts again to remove
the error, saying to friend "One three
pence may swell into hundred pounds
next year, if we neglect it"
The world was surprised to learn that
Lord Macaulay labored with great diligence
to perfect the style of his history, re-writ-
ing almost every sentence, and recasting
whole chapters to make a slight improv-
ment. A similar lesson is taught by the
manuscripts of Leibnitz, which are preserv-
ed in Hanover. He was the most learned
man of his age, and his studies covered al.
most the entire range of human knowledge
yet no man ever wrote with more care, nc
man ever blotted and altered more than he
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u o r s A L E.

Ill Acres prime limestone ia k6Izf
land near New Windsor, 73l5rGsxzz 3l5rL1E,Gzzz
miles from Westminster; fine buildings, all
in good condition; very desirable farm;
price $l2, ,O00-half cash, balance on years
time.
minister to New Windsor, J mile from former
place; good house, good stablng, good water.
extra fine fruit, &c. Price $1250.
Fine brick house on John street, 8 rooms,
conveniently arranged, all in first class con-
,diton. Quite bargain at $4,000.
300 acres near Finksburg, Nd; miles
from Westminster, l mile from Railroad
Station; land in fair condition; 100 acres in
timber; stone house, bank barn; will be diyid-
ed if desired; $50 per acre.
minister; large bank barn. fine orchard, splen-
did building site for house; price $4,000.
Large brick hotel in Westminster, on Main
street, near Railroad Depot; price sl4, 200.
Farm As acres, miles tFom Westminster;
land good; buildings good; orchard choice
fruit; price $50 per acre.
Farm 73 acres, 8 miles from Westminster, 2
miles from Hampstead, nearest X. IL. Station.
good house and barn; SO acres cleared land
in good condition; S35 per acre.
Nice Little Home, one mile from West
minister; 60 acres of prime land, good brick
house; price, $500.
PAS acres prime land; elegant buildings; IL
miles from Baltimore, near railroad; price
$4,000. 100 acres of same farm would be
sold with good dwelling, &c; price ST, 900.
Twenty acres good land, good buildings,
near Westminster, So, 800.
One hundred acres, best quality of land, q
miles from Westminster; buildings only fair,
good water, &C.; price, $500.
Brick house and lot in Westminster; 81 200.
Double brick house and lot in Westmin-
,ster; 81, 500.
Also, some fine pasture lots, ranging from
2 to acres, adjoining Westminster.
For particulars cali on or address
sep4,tf E. LYNCH, Westminster, Md.
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Bill Nye,s Calico Cow.

"0wing to i'll health says Bill Nye, II
will sell at my residence in Town 20, Range
Is, west, according to Government survey,
one crushed-raspbery oolored COW, age 6
years, She Is good milkster and not
afraid of the cars-or anything else. She
is a COW of undaunted courage and gives
milk frequently. To man who does not
fear deathin any form she would be a
great boon. She is very much attached to
her home at present, by means Of a trace
chain, but she will be sold to any one who
will agree to treat her right. She is one
fourth Short Horn and three-fourths hyena.
Purchaser need not be identified. Twill also
throw in double-barreled shotgun which
goes with her. In May she generally goes
away for a week OF two and returns with a
tall red calf with long, warbly legs. Hel
name is Rose and l would prefer to sell
her to nonresident"
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Couldn't Fool Uncle Peter.

Countryman-"That feller in the tele-
graph Office up there thought he was mighty
smart, but l fooled him." Policeman
"You did? How?" "Oh, easy enough /;
you see, went in there yesterday to senG
a message to St. Louis, and told him what
l wanted. "All right" sez he; "75 cts. !"
So l paid him the IS cents, and I'll be
darned if he did thing but rap that old
brass clicker of his fifteen or twenty times
and then hang the message on a hook"
aWell, do you call that fooling him p
Youjust hold on and I'lltell you. To-day I
wanted TO send another message to st. Louis,
but I'll be gosh darned if wanted to pay
another rs cents. So l went up to the
office, kinder polite like, an sez l Mister,
sez l, athere's young lady outside as sea
she wants to speak to you. I'll tend Office
for you while you're gone" Well, sir, he
bit right away. OFF he went in hurry,
and before he got back had plenty of time
to clink his old brass machine all wanted,
and hang my message on the hook Just as
he did the day before. knew they got it,
too, at the other end, for the minute got
through the old machine went to clicking
like blue blazes, s much's to say, "All
right, old man, we hear you" Oh, | fooled
him good, / did Your Uncle Peter lives
in Wayback but he amt no fool, he amt;
not by long chalk; no stree !"
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CHEAP AND EFFICIENT DIsINFRcTANT
Take of nitrate of lead, one heaped tea
spoonful and dissolve in quart of boiling
water, then take four heaping teaspoonfuls
of common table salt and dissolve it in a
bucket nearly full of cold water, now add
the quart of boiling water containing the
nitrate of lead, mix up with stick, and
the article is complete. This puri6cator is
useful to be thrown into cesspools, water
closets, decaying offensive substances crea-
ting nuisance, to neutralize the effluvia
from scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus and
typhoid fevers, dysentery, smallpox, in
fact in all diseases of an infectious or con-
tagious character. 1t is as clear as water,
and can be sprinkled around the room and
over the bed clothes occupied by persons
laboring under infectious or contagious dis
eases. This disinfectant is equal, if not
superior, to chlorides, bromo chloralum,
chlorides of lime and soda, and is free from
any unpleasant odor. 1t is very cheap,
costing only about two cents a bucketful,
and the nitrate of lead can be obtained in
nearly every drug store, and the salt being
in every house costs almost nothing.
Every farmer and citizen should cut this
out and paste it up in conspicuous place
about his house or barn so as to have it
always before his eyes.
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A GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT.-The
Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the
Conemaugh river at Johnstown, Pa, was
successfully moved down the river about
20 feet Tuesday, June 18th, to make room
for the erection of new stone arch bridge
The moving was great engineering feat.
The bridge is of iron and is almost $50
feet in length. When the building Of the
new bridge was decided on some time ago,
the question of how to get the trains across
the river while the work was in progress
caused great deal of discussion. Engi-
neers generally believed that the bridge
was too big to be successfully moved. One
man was found, however, who was willing
to undertake the task and to sign contract
not to delay regular trains more than few
hours. The contract was made and the
engineer went to work. Trestles were
built on each side of the river from the
bridge IS feet down. Rails were laid along
the trestles, and the bridge itself was placed
on tracks. Then everything was ready for
the final move. Shortly after noon Tues
day the great structure was started on its
journey. Its great length made its prog
ress very slow, and it was not until 10
o'clock at night that it finally rested on its
new foundations. The tracks on each side
were quickly changed to suit the new loca-
ton, and trains commented crossing as
usual.
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The Mile-a-Minute Myth.

sit is interesting to study railroad statis-
tics, said railroad director to a New
York Mail and Express reporter. He
continued in the same strain: "There are
100000 miles of railroad in the world.
In 1885 the railways of the United States
carried 312, 2,6S6,641 passengers and 400,-
452, ,439 tons of freight. Each person was
transported an average distance of % miles,
hence the entire movement on all the roads
was equal to carrying, S,541 ,309,674 per-
sons one mile. Massachusetts takes the
lead IN passenger transportation with 3d.
SOO,SS7; Pennsylvania next, then New
York, Illinois, New jersey, and Ohio. In
freight tonnage New Jersey takes the lead
with 105,507, ,916 tons, and New York
second. There are about % miles of
double track, sidings, etc., 10 locomotives,
621 freight cars, 8 baggage and mail and
l3 passenger cars for every 1000 miles
of railroad in the United States.
"Speed is hard to average. The sixty
and seventy-fve- miles-an-hour train is gen.
orally myth. An average of forty-eight
and three-tenths miles per hour is the fast
est time in the United States. This is
made on the Pennsylvania limited in its
run from jersey City to Philadelphia,
ninety miles, in less than two hours. The
Flying Dutchman' train is supposed to
make the fastest time in the world, between
London and Bristol, 1881 miles, in less
than two hours. The average, though, of
even this fast train is only tifty-nine and
one-eighth miles per hour There are sew
eral other trains noted for remarkably fast
time on short distances. Sometimes
straight and even grade for distance of
twenty miles will permit train to run at
the rate of more than mile a minute.
One train on the Canadian Pacific road,
from Cotaneau to Ottawa, averages fifty
miles an hour for distance of seventy
eight miles. On the Central road the late
Mr.. Vanderbilt travelled at the rate of
ninety miles an hour. An average of
thirty-six and half miles an hour is con-
sidered fast travelling. Many of the lim-
tied lightning expresses do not 90 at a
faster rate. The value of railroads in the
United States exceeds $4,000, 900 900.
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A married woman was telling staid
lady, somewhat on the wrong side of fifty,
of some domestic troubles, which she in
great part attributed to the Irregularities of
her husband. "Well," said the old maid,
ssyou have brought these troubles on your
self. | told you not to marry him. I was
sure he would not make you good
husband" aHe is not good one, to be
sure, madam, replied the woman, "but he
is a powerful sight better than none I"
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A photographer in Chicago has queer
lawsuit on hand. He'exhumed the body
of an infant that had been buried month,
and took negatives of it in two positions,
on the order of the little ones father, who,
however, was so shocked by the features
that he declined to pay the s15 demanded
by the photographer. The latter is now
endeayoring to collect by legal proceed
ings.
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AN ACCOMPLISHED, WIFE.-"Ah, old
fellow" said a city man recently, on meet
ing friend, $50 you are married at last.
Allow me to congratulate you, for l hear
that you have an excellent and accom-
plished wife" 81 have indeed" was the
reply; s'she is so accomplished Why,
sir, she is perfectly at home in literature,
at home in music, at home in art, at home
in science, in short, at home everywhere,
except" Except where ?" asked the
city man. Except at home" replied his
friend.
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WALL PAPERl WALL PAPERl

This is to give notice that j. NJ. Wells, of
No. 720 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore,
has opened Branch Store in Westminster,
at sS East Main street, nearly opposite Derr's $
Store. The very finest stock of Wall Paper
constantly on hand. Also Window Shades of
fine quality-our own make.
The business in Westminster will be con-
Quoted by Geo. E. Matthews, and full salts
faction guaranteed. Come and see samples.
j. NJ. WELLS.
Geo. E. Matthews, Manager.
p. ST. will call to see persons living in
the country desiring work done if they will
inform me by mail. Address
GEO. E. MATTHEW'S,
No. SO East Main Street,
mar 10 3m Westminster, Md.
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A NEW DRUG STORE,
N AT THE WEST END,
Cor. Main st. and PENNSYLVANIA Ave

Being graduate of the Maryland College
of Pharmacy and having had much experience
in the Drug business, fatter myself that all
prescriptions will be filled with the utmost
care. My stock of
Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, Fancy
Goods, etc.,
Are all fresh, having been just purchased from
the manufacturers. Night calls promptly an
swered, as | sleep in the store. A call is re-
spectfnlly solicited
may I 6m LOUIS REIND0LLAR.
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He who is unjust to himself, can he be
just to others? It is only in himself that
he can know what justice is, or what is
good or bad for others. We never benefit
another but by our own resources.
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A Coon SooIETY.-A society in Eng
land is called 'sThe Speak-no-evil Society"
Its members are enjoined before speaking
evil of any one to ask themselves three
questions.Is it true2 Is it kind Is it
necessary? Four texts from the New Tes.
lament bearing on the subject are printed
at the bottom of the membership card
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EREE DELIVERY OF FLOUR
Il FEED, &c.

Having lately purchased the Mill formerly
known as Mours MILL will deliver Flour and
Feed to customers in any part of Westmin-
ster, free of charge. viii make snec;aitv
of Crushed Corn for young chickens.
WIN. A. SHRIVER, Avondale. Md.
Telephone connection. ap2tf
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with the first accurate intelligence of tho
epidemic. Several years ago case O.
yellow fever arrived off one of the Atlantic
seaports. No correct report being obtain.
able, reporter went on board the shir
and interviewed the patient. When peo-
pie were flying from Charleston after the
earthquakes, the newspaper men were iy-
ing towards it. The only business that
the earthquakes did not suspend there was
the publication Of the newspapers. Dur
ing the most terrible days of the Paris
Commune, historian says, Reporters
Jotted down observations in their note books
as unconcernedly as if they were reporting
the proceedings of reform meeting. y
During the war there were hundreds of
Instances Of bravery on the part of news
paper men, They took every risk to get
news, aRd to put it on the telegraph wire.
They went through all the hardsbips of
the camp and the sufferings of impIrison-
ment. Efforts were made to hang six of
them; but, to the disgust of their enemies
SIX men lived to write vivid accounts Of
SIX hangings that never took place.
u " ASiJ WIS an American
newspaper man before he settled in Great
Britain and became elected to Parliament
He reported the Cuban insurrection. He
was hand in glove with the insurgents.
fought with them, believed in them. The |
Spanish government chafed under the |
scathing vigor of his relentless facts. and
when the fortunes of war threw him into
their hands, he was packed off post
haste to Madrid, to be executed as
spy His courage never forsook him. In
very matter of fact way he made arrange
nents to write up the full account of his
,wn execution, entrusting the climax to
riend. CASTELAR, saw what kind of a man
lie was, and pardoned him at the last mo
nent He was thankful, of course, but he
lad the audacity to remark that a yery
'ood item of news had been spoiled.
Perhaps you have read Albert Millaud's
ccount of the death of Camille Farcy. a
correspondent who accompanied the French
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THE ToYMAKERs.

The workers are of two sorts, the factory
hands and the "masters, who work at
home with the help of an employe or two
and of their own families. The position of
the master varies little from that of the
other workmep. The master occupies a
cottage aud has potato patch on the steep,
stony hillside. But the cottage and potato
patch are usually heavily mortgaged, and
in order to pay interest and taxes the fam
lily usually rent the best rooms and live in
the most wretched closet-like dens. The
quarter of Sonneberg where the workers
live is the oldest of the city. After the
Russites had destroyed the city the inhab-
itants are said to have taken refuge in
Grulthal, long gorge under the protection
of the castle. Shut in by steep hillsides,
the Grunthal affords scarcely room enough
for two narrow rows of houses, so that
many of them are built directly into the
hillside. The dwelling usually consists of
a sleeping and living room, both low
ceiled and heated winter and summer, in
order to dry the wares which stand about
the stove upon shelves and boards The
living room, at once kitchen, workshop and
nursery, is usually light. But the sleeping
room is rarely ventilable, and still more
rarely ventilated 1t contains exactly
room enough for two or three beds, so close
together that no one can pass between them
At night the occupant of the furthest must
climb over the intervening ones. Here
two, three or four persons occupy each bed
The poverty and crowding are horrible, the
want of dwellings increasing as the factory
system draws more and more hands to the
town. And these pens are expensive, too;
the most wretched of them, with but one
habitable room, costs from 60 to so marks,
and for the usual sleeping and living room
together the workingman pays 80 to $50
marks. The cleanliness of such dwellings,
may readily be imagined. The weeks
sweeping and scrubbing is coufned to Sat
urday afternoon, when the wares are packed
ready to be taken to the merchants. The
sleeping room rarely shares the benefit of
the scrubbing. The food Of these unfor-
tunates consists of potatoes eaten in the
morning with cup of chicory and as lunch
with bread. For dinner, potatoes, with a
herring or some fat from the butcher. The
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country. Two million words of news ar,
received by cable from the London offic,
every year. When Gladstone made hi.
great speech introducing his Irish Home
Rule bill, the Associated Press reported it
The concluding words Of that wonderful
address fell from his lips about ten O'Clock
In the evening. AT the same hour-our
time-the full report, with graphic ac-
count of the attending circumstances, ag-
gregating $4,000 words, had traversed the
ocean, dashed over thousands of miles of
space, and was being set up in type in the
newspaper Offices Of every large city in this
country. 1t was the greatest piece of
cabling ever done. When O'Dopnell. the
murderer of Carey, the Phoenix Park in
former, was hung at s o'clock-Lopdon
tlme-an account was Immediately eabled
to New York, and it appeared in the papers
OF this country the same morning the exc
cution took place, the difference in time. of
course, making such feat possible. But
even with that, it was a marvellous piece
OF work. And what, you may ask, is the
annual cost of this service, which is only a
part OF what you get In your newspaper.
for which you pay So year? Only a
bagatelle-s1, 100000.
NOR is THAT ALL.
Other press associations distribute every
year 10000, 900 more words of news and
the newspapers pay an extra 81 900, 900 to |
the telegraph companies for special de-
spatches Fortunes are spent every day |
for matter which costs the reader two
cents. When Emperor William made his
famous speech after the battle of Sadowa.
s4'ooo In gold was paid for its transmission
% an American paper. When Stanley
brought Livingstone's letters from the in
erior of Africa, $4,000 were spent in
'aoling them. When the new Spanish
reaty with this country was signed at Ma
lrld, an American journal got it by cable
It an outlay Of $4,000. These are the
arger instances, but they illustrate the
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DUBLIC SALE
Il OF A
FINE FARM.

The undersigned as Attorneys for the heirs
of Samuel Miller, late of Carroll county, (de,
ceased), will sell on the premises, the farm OF
which Samuel Miller died seized and pos
sessed of. near Mount Pleasant, on the Turn
nike leading from Westminster TO Littlestown,
about four miles from the former place, on
SATURDAY,, June 25th, 1887:
at o'clock, P. NJ, that Valuable Farm, con-
tanning
I45I ACRES OF LAND,
which has proved to be one of the most produe-
tive farms in that immediate neighborhood,
convenient to mills, schools, churches, stores,
blacksmith shops, &c. 1t is well fenced and
in excellent condition, with fine portion OF
Excellent Wood Land, some meadow land,
with fine stream of water flowing from
never failing spring. The improvements
consist of good Switzer Barn, recently built,
65x45 feet, two good Log
AA-S Houses, Dairy with spring at
A2 tached, Carriage House, Corn
&i5E1sSiaG &5E1SalG Crib, Hog House, and all
other out building needed on a first class
farm. This farm is free from any kind of
filth whatever, and is well worthy the atten.
ton of any one desirous Of having good
home. Also, at the same time will offer
ONE LOL OF Ill ACRES OF LAND,
contiguous thereto, one half Of which is cov-
cred with fine young timber, the balance in
excellent farming land. The conditions of
all the above land is, that the purchaser will
be charged no interest on the purchase notes
till the first day of April, 1888, when posses
sion will be given, and if desired by the pur-
chaser, he can make arrangements with Mr..
Eckert, the present farmer, to put out his fall
crop.
The conditions are ouethird on the first
day of April, 1888, and the balance in two
equal payments with approved security, bear
ing interest from the first day of April, 1888;
or if desired by the purchaser, one half of the
purchase money can remain in the farm.
Any one desiring to view the farm can do
so by calling on the attorneys at Westminster,
or Mr. Eckert, residing on the farm.
ISAAC G. BALE,
JOHN l.. REIFSNIDER,
may2S Is Attorneys.
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Those who are never weary can never
know how sweet rest is.
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NOTICE
To Those Having Land for Sale

The undersigned offers his services TO those
having land for sale, and believes from ex-
perience had he can be Of service in dividing
np and putting in shape for sale to advantage
of parties wishing to dispose of lands, espe.
cially near towns or cities.
E. LYNCH,
JanzS:u Westminster, Md.